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Monday, 4 February 2013

Are You On The Eyewear Young UK Poet's List?

Dear younger, youngish, and young poets of the UK (with or without citizenship, presumably resident, perhaps abroad), born in or since 1970, hence under the age of 44 (hence younger than the older generations of Lumsden, Nagra, Duffy, Paterson, Shapcott, Motion, etc.) - the generation of Jon Stone, Luke Kennard, Amy De'Ath, Helen Mort, Ahren Warner, Sandeep Parmar, Nathan Hamilton, James Byrne, Tom Chivers, Rachael Boast, SJ Fowler, Frances Leviston, Sam Riviere, Holly Hopkins, Jack Underwood, Emily Berry, Liz Berry, Heather Phillipson, Caleb Klaces, Kirsten Irving and Colette Sensier (among many others)... are you on this list below? If not, please do drop me a message here or on FB. I am thinking of writing a book on this generation or two, coming so fully into its own, especially since 2010 or so... do check and see if you've been inadvertently left off. I aim to be inclusive. You must have published a pamphlet, a debut collection, won a national or international prize or been commended in one, or had poems published in good magazines, print or online (Ambit, Magma, Poetry London, Poetry Review, The Rialto, PN Review, The Wolf, Eyewear, Nthposition, Stand, Agenda, etc)....AND PLEASE NOTE, THE MELITA HUME POETRY PRIZE OPENS, FEB. 13. JUDGE JON STONE. LAST YEAR'S WINNER IS CALEB KLACES, HE LAUNCHES APRIL 24 IN BLOOMSBURY AT GOODENOUGH COLLEGE....

THE MELITA HUME POETRY PRIZE is an award of £1,000 and a publishing deal
with Eyewear Publishing Ltd., for the best first full collection of a
young poet writing in the English language, born in 1978 or later (that
is, 35 years of age or under). The aim of this prize is
to support younger emerging writers during difficult economic times.
This is open to any one of the requisite age, of any nationality,
resident in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is free to enter.

Eyewear Young UK Poets List, A Work In Progress (poets must be born in or since 1970)